Ask HN: What would an OOP-style human language look like?

2 pointsby avancemos6 years ago3 comments

3 comments

dvndvn6 years ago

For parametrically constructed language according to Noam Chomsky, Sanskrit was best constructed. Chomsky's work of language theory has inspired many compiler designs in early programming. He favored particularly Sanskrit grammarian called 'Panini' and his 500AD work called 'Ashtadyayi'

There was a huge discussion about 8 years back on HN itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729626

AnimalMuppet6 years ago

To me, variable.method(argument) looks a lot like "subject verb object".

_bxg16 years ago

Human language is already pretty OOP; I think that's a big part of the latter's appeal. We speak in terms of categories, objects, and subject-verb-object clauses.